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25 Cards in this Set
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mentor |
wise advisor |
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mundane |
typical of the ordinary |
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bizarre |
strikingly unusual; fantastic |
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charlatan |
fake |
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discerning |
perceptive; showing insight and judgement |
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deleterious |
harmful |
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morose |
ill-humoured; sullen |
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aberration |
something different from the normal or usual |
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chicanery |
trickery;fraud |
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unadulterated |
absolutely pure |
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sporadically |
occurring irregularly |
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cognition |
mental process by which knowledge is acquired |
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tedious |
boring; tiring |
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didactic |
instructional; teaching |
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prodigious |
enormous (also:extraordinary) |
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denotation |
direct meaning of a word |
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lexicon |
vocabulary |
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ignominy |
great personal dishonor or humiliation |
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arcane |
know only by a few; obscure |
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gargantuan |
huge |
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eccentric |
odd; deviating from the normal |
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pedestrian |
ordinary; commonplace |
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daunting |
frightening; intimidating; discouraging |
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explicit |
very clear; definite |
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saga |
prose narrative |
